by Griffin Theatre Company Available on demand TBC 2024 Written by Nakkiah Lui Plumage! Puns! Political incorrectness gone mad! Griffin Theatre Company is proud to present: Blaque Showgirls! A lonely kid in rural Australia, fair-skinned Sarah Jane Jones is deathly sure of two things: 1. She’s the best dancer in the whole town of Chithole, and 2. She’s a proud Aboriginal woman. There’s very little proof of either of these things. So, when a long-lost photograph offers hope of her Indigenous ancestry, Sarah Jane high-tails it to the glitziest casino in Brisvegas. Her mission? To land a ro ..read more

by Griffin Theatre Company Available on demand TBC 2024 Written by Eloise Snape Hazel is no angel. In fact, she’s a delusional, reality TV-obsessed fantasist who swears like a sailor and has a fondness for greased-up male strippers. She’s also hugely, undeniably, ready-to-pop pregnant. Up the duff and coasting through ultrasounds, baby showers and appointments with her midwife, Hazel is very good at ignoring the stark reality that’s about to rock her world from the inside out—literally. What happens when you’re not ready to swap grinding to Ginuwine for nursery rhymes? When you’re ques ..read more

by New Ghosts Theatre Company with support from National Theatre of Parramatta Available on demand TBC 2024 Written by Katy Warner “Universally, women with personalities are hated” – Billie Eilish It’s 1994 and powerhouse record label managers, Craig and Darren, have created the girl-band to end all girl-bands. They have been moulded, twisted, and worked to become the girls that everyone wants. The Sensation Girls. Problem is, The Sensation Girls don’t know who they are anymore. When unofficial leader DeeDee unexpectedly quits, things begin to unravel. The girls are getting older and b ..read more

by Griffin Theatre Company Available on demand November 2023 Written by Dylan Van Den Berg Once in a blue moon, in the middle of nowhere, two teenage boys meet under a lemon tree. After a rough start, a fragile friendship fruits into a heady romance. Ty and Neddy fall madly in love, as teenagers are wont to do. If history would just unfurl a little differently, the boys might have a beautiful future ahead of them. But without knowing it, Ty and Neddy are poised on the brink of a world that is about to change forever. It’s the early 19th century. Ty is River Mob. Neddy is Mountain Mob. And t ..read more

by Pinchgut Opera Available on demand TBC 2023 Written by Antonio Cesti “Duty and passion, old flames and new flings, music and wine all come head-to-head in a riotous night at the opera.” – Constantine Costi An opera set in a heightened contemporary world somewhere between Egypt and Las Vegas, Orontea is a guaranteed, pleasure-filled romp. Despite renouncing love, Queen Orontea finds herself falling for a handsome refugee artist, Alidoro, only to discover that she has most of the women in her court as rivals. Add to the mix her moralistic councillor Creonte, the scheming courtesan Silandra ..read more

by Griffin Theatre Company Available on demand April 2024 Written by Eloise Snape Hazel is no angel. In fact, she’s a delusional, reality TV-obsessed fantasist who swears like a sailor and has a fondness for greased-up male strippers. She’s also hugely, undeniably, ready-to-pop pregnant. Up the duff and coasting through ultrasounds, baby showers and appointments with her midwife, Hazel is very good at ignoring the stark reality that’s about to rock her world from the inside out—literally. What happens when you’re not ready to swap grinding to Ginuwine for nursery rhymes? When you’re qu ..read more

by New Ghosts Theatre Company with support from National Theatre of Parramatta Available on demand TBC 2023 Written by Katy Warner “Universally, women with personalities are hated” – Billie Eilish It’s 1994 and powerhouse record label managers, Craig and Darren, have created the girl-band to end all girl-bands. They have been moulded, twisted, and worked to become the girls that everyone wants. The Sensation Girls. Problem is, The Sensation Girls don’t know who they are anymore. When unofficial leader DeeDee unexpectedly quits, things begin to unravel. The girls are getting older and b ..read more

by Griffin Theatre Company Available on demand November 2023 Written by Dylan Van Den Berg Once in a blue moon, in the middle of nowhere, two teenage boys meet under a lemon tree. After a rough start, a fragile friendship fruits into a heady romance. Ty and Neddy fall madly in love, as teenagers are wont to do. If history would just unfurl a little differently, the boys might have a beautiful future ahead of them. But without knowing it, Ty and Neddy are poised on the brink of a world that is about to change forever. It’s the early 19th century. Ty is River Mob. Neddy is Mountain Mob. And t ..read more

by Barry Crocker Available on demand 3 March 2023 Devised, written, and performed by Crocker, this wry and sentimental radio play explores various “chapters” in the life of Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson. It is told in flashback as the elderly Paterson, not long before his death in 1941, addresses the students at Sydney Grammar. With Crocker voicing the titular role, Jack Thompson narrating, and Michael Caton voicing Henry Lawson (supported by Nick Jasprizza, Gerard McGuire & Martine Williams as miscellaneous voices), this is an entertaining and educative audio experience not to be miss ..read more

by Malocchio Productions & Bontom presented at 25a Available on demand September 2023 Written by Danny Ball ‘YOUR FAMILY HAVE A REALLY WOGGY VIBE – YOU KNOW, YOUR DAD WORKING IN THE REPAIR SHOP, YOUR MUM AT THE CAFE… WHICH I TOTALLY LOVE… AND MINE ARE MORE… ITALIAN.’ It’s la dolce vita for Joe right now. He’s got a successful business, handsome boyfriend and wealthy AF future in-laws. He’s clawed his way out of the working class and he’s got freshly steamed linen trousers to prove it. But his plans for full-blown assimilation take a nasty turn when Joe’s estranged cousin drops by and exp ..read more